Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)

Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)

This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Swedish statesman Johan Skytte (1577–1645), focusing on his educational ideals and his contributions to educational reform in the early Swedish Age of Greatness. Although born a commoner, Skytte rose to be one of the most powerful men in Sweden in the...

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Main Author: Ingemarsdotter, Jenny
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2011
Subjects:
Johan Skytte
history of education
Ramism
Petrus Ramus
utility
merit
humanism
Late Renaissance
Sweden
Age of Greatness
patriotism
Hesse-Kassel
the University of Marburg
Uppsala University
Charles IX
Gustav II Adolf
Vasa
Neo-Latin
dissertation
oration
rhetoric
reform
the mathematical arts
eloquence
History of science and ideas
Idé- o lärdomshistoria
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